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--- by Ann M Garvey --- Anns are dissociative and believe being dissociative is something that should be treated respectfully.

Mind Mapping - the NEWS (slowly - work in process)

Friday, March 6, 2015

We've been busy with some work
with the Billy Milligan story. News has come out in the last week of Leonardo
DiCaprio playing Milligan’s part in a movie first scripted by James
Cameron. For those of us who don’t know these things, Cameron was the guy
who did the Terminator movies, as well as Titanic and Avatar. During our normal
Multiple NEWS work over the course of the last four days, there were 55 entries
and 27 of them belonged to the DiCaprio movie buzz. We did some research,
asked some questions, and got good feedback from our group, “Plural Activism.”
We hope to encompass some of their thoughts in our writing process through an
outline that follows this commentary. I'm thrilled that people have
responded already in very good conversational form, and also in the process, we
were able to get the original script read, and we have ordered a couple books.
They are the original “The Minds of Billy Milligan,” which we'd read too long ago, and one book representing
fairly new work on DID and the legal system called, “Dissociative Identity Disorder in the Courtroom: A Guide to
Forensic Testimony.”

Basically, Billy Milligan was
someone in the 70's that not only committed the felonies of theft and
kidnapping, but he also committed the rapes of three female students at Ohio
State. He was arrested on October 27, 1977. Milligan was presented into
the legal system and became the first Multiple – held as insane for crimes his
"alters" committed. In fact, others within his system acknowledged
committing the crimes. He went through a short hospitalization at the Athens
Mental Health Center which was a state facility. The facility seemed to
help him learn to communicate with his many selves. Billy was eventually
thought to merge into one person they named, “Teacher.” After a
relatively short time, Athens decided that Billy was sane enough to be back in
society. That decision led to an uproar of people concerned that he was
still dangerous to the community. Billy then re-entered the justice
system where they decided he was still insane. The term
"insane" is a legal term, not a medical one. He was this time
taken to a much worse Ohio State institution called Lima. In total, he
spent 13 years locked in Ohio mental institutions. Billy regressed at the
second institution, and then eventually, he was released when they closed down
the facility. Closing down of facilities was something happening at that
time all over the country due to lack of funding, overcrowding, understaffed,
poor care, and newer medication that could be distributed in masse.

Although we are just starting
this research, we know that Billy Milligan had some future legal
troubles and he eventually needed assistance in taking care of him/them,
but he was involved in two books being written and a substantial amount of
artwork which he sold to earn his living. Part of his problem was that
the institutions that had held him for so long came back and wanted
approximately $450,000 to compensate for their “care of him,” Billy then had to
fight legally for survival money after reimbursements were taken. He was
in general, a recluse turning away from the public, but in 2014, he had started
a blog representing pictures and conversation on his drawings. The
standing blog seemed to show that he was becoming more public, but he died of
cancer December 12, 2014 at the age of 59 while in the care of a nursing
home.

One of our Plural Activists by
the house name Astraea hadan interview with Billy late in 1996. In general, Billy sounded pessimistic with what was
happening with Multiplicity at large. He seemed to be relatively
productive working with people in Japan on a second book, he was asked for
interviews, and he had been consistently working on his drawings. He was
disillusioned by the number of people being interviewed on TV as he perceived
them to be giving false representation of being Multiple, and he believed that
doctors/psychiatrists had a hand in the development of Multiples for financial
gain. He was getting sued by the Department of Mental Health over
publishing rights and monies they thought he owed even though their treatment
of Milligan appears horrific. Billy Milligan wanted to educate people on
the peril of institutions, and he felt he was being “squashed” by them in
return for his public outrage. He wanted a resistance movement to
stand up for "the humanity needed in caring for real people" and
having the “freak show” of institutions stopped because of the psychological
damage it had caused themselves and others.

As part of being an activist,
we feel some need to safeguard a better impression of Multiplicity than is
going to come out before, during and after the movie “A Crowded Room.” We think
many people will believe “the key should have been thrown away” on Billy
Milligan, and we believe the entire situation will bring a new wave of public
thoughts asking the question even more demandingly as, "Is
Multiplicity even real?" Or, "Is it just a lack of taking
responsibility."

But, we feel - The HOT STORY in online news this last week,
especially through Google Alerts, has been Leonardo DiCaprio playing Billy
Milligan (Multiple) in a movie thus far called, "A Crowded Room."
We will subsequently be posting our commentary in ourNEWS DID/MPDblog as
"What I know about Multiplicity Today - Tuesday, March 3, 2015 - Day
62. This work includes the above commentary and the outline written
below. This commentary work is authoredAnn Garvey:Aynetal3, but the outline is her synthesizing correspondences
between members of the Yahoo Group, "Plural Activism."
The contributing members of this particular outline were the members Jazz:Oure Gaiya,AnjaNa,Jay:Astraea, and ourselves.

The outline includes thoughts on Leonardo DiCaprio's role,
"What is the Billy Story," and then notes on the script, "A
Crowded Room," filming of the movie, potential contact with Leonardo
DiCaprio or his staff, our representation as healthy Multiples, positive press
on the group, negative press on Multiplicity,Issue #1 -
Legal/Court/State Institution - justice/In-justice, and Issue #2 -General
Public "individual and group externals" perception of
Multiplicity. There quite honestly haven't been any bad responses to the
conversations - all contribute to the whole. Please excuse the artistic
license we utilized in trying to place thoughts of ourselves and others in
context. The outline is as follows:

Thanks for ALL emotional and written thought
contributions!

Personal note - Jay,

We weren't sure in which context to place this note - And
yes, we don't understand "biopic":

"By the way, continuing with whoever it was who sent
our earlier post, itwas Ron Howard and the people he worked with who did
"A Beautiful Mind"like it was "The Matrix" with their cinematic
choices, made-up incidentsand characters, then claimed they "never set out to do
a biopic". http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/aa121501b.htmHere, of course, we need to emphasize that a biopic
is exactly what wewant. The last thing we need is another
"Identity."" Jay

I hope that this outline although - HUGE is readable, and
perhaps as Jazz says, we can [from here] make a to-do list and divvy it
up? What are the next series of thoughts that will help to
"clean-up" the list if interested make it more clearly defined, and
what questions can be answered or thought through more succinctly and more
accurately along with fact-checking. Or are there other avenues to
progress our involvement?

And yes, we also note Jazz' willingness to go
"public" - Patience Grasshopper! Lots to think through

i.How does the effect of
him being trained/coached by Billy Milligan play out as the character being a
"classic Multiple?"

j.Is he good enough an
actor to present accurately and convincingly? And to make a great impact on the
public?

k.Can he be guided to
give better interviews and feedback to the public through healthy Multiple
coaching and fact checking?

l.Is he, or the
combination of him and all of us, capable of carrying on "The Great
Conversation" that may be represented by this story?"

m.Does LD know how much
Multiples might value his opportunity to make a terrifically insightful
impactful story/movie?

n.Do we get kudos for
being Multiple too?

o.Can we support him
without trying to convey he or the show is wrong, but rather, that we would
like to trust, believe, and as well, contribute to the work?

p.Can we convey to him
that many Multiples think standing up, are fast at adapting, and that we DON'T
have all the answers, but we're interested, active as a group, and would
like to enlighten and interact with ACR too

q.We do applaud his
audacity - its incredible work ahead as we each seek better definition and
transparency.

2.What is Billy's story?

a.What is Billy's
legacy?

b.Is the glass half full
or half empty?

c.He was real like us
and also should be valued for having had a sense of purpose and dignity, as
should his victims.

d.Billy has a genuinely
appealing story, even in its negative depth, that could interest others,
through general humanity and curiousness/unusualness

e.Did Billy's
"mixed-up" times spoil his life?

f.Can it be seen that
Billy's story is unique and individual to him and does not replicate or become
representative of "a normal Multiple" (the rest of us who stay within
the law).

g.Was he a product of
his time? The product of society's time?

h.Billy was featured in
two books written by now deceased, Daniel Keys, "The Minds of Billy
Milligan" and "The Milligan Wars."

i.Can this be an
opportunity in the public forum to converse and dialogue about common and
unique perceptions of crime by a Multiple?

j.What did Dr. David
Caul's statement represent as Billy being a "functional unit?"
and how that affected others?

k.Billy was not an
ordered, functional, peaceful Multiple during the course of time that the ACR
script is written; he was having a rough time controlling his selves as a unit,
and he also knew himself as being disordered.

l.Billy did not commit
murder, he did commit nine counts of felony theft, kidnapping, and rape.

m.It's been stated that
Billy's 19 year old lesbian personAdalanacommitted the rapes victimizing three women becauseAdalanalacked
affection and intimacy, and thatRagen, Billy's protector
person, committed the burglaries - both of these people admitted to their
crimes

n.It's been stated,
though not excused, that a few of BM's burglaries were "Robin Hood"
attempts to help others who couldn't afford what they needed.

o.Why did Billy hold on
to his belief that he as a "whole" Multiple was being less then the
sum of the parts?"

p.What does it mean to
have a "criminal mindset?"

q.Billy appears to have
first been held in a "better" Ohio State Institution called, Athens,
he seems to have first learned to handle being 24 different people, though the
stay was shorter and they had thought him ready to rejoin society.

r.In the second Ohio
State Institution called Lima, he seems to have spent about a decade and he
regressed greatly.

s.Why is it important to
us as society to believe or hold the illusion that Billy really wasn't hurt at
Lima because he was able to withdraw? Just like he dissociated as a child?
Was this optimal?

t.Lima, at the end, was
closed due to terrible management, cost, poor care, etc. and Billy was freed,
though it is unclear how his "afterward" issues were addressed;

i.of violence,

ii.street drugs,

iii.inability to hold a
job,

iv.difficulties in
communicating selves and feelings with others - with the exception of art,

v.having a personal and
professional support system,

vi.use of beneficial
medications.

u.It appears that the
Ohio State Mental Health system continued traumatizing Billy after his stay
there by attacking him/attaching themselves to his income, which had to be very
demanding, and psychologically an unsound practice in that Billy was already
being forced at a baseline level to fight for his survival with extremely
difficult burdens and responsibilities.

v.Society seemed to be
very unforgiving in its "care" of Billy as to his sanity, while in
and then later out of the institution which may or may not have pushed him to
becoming more pessimistic and paranoid. These states were very real to
him and begs the question of what it means to be "cured."

w.At this point, we do
not know the cost of being institutionalized, but that the experience weighed
heavily on Billy and most likely MOST people who did andunfortunatelydid not
survive.

bb.Does he necessarily then just die or fade into a
background? And at which point -

i.after public outcry
fades?

ii.when
re-institutionalized like Jack Nicolson in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest?"

iii.after a random number
of years?

iv.when he is
"better?"

v.after he dies
(December 12, 2014)?

cc.Is Billy's dying two
months before DiCaprio signed-on to the movie "deal" a coincidence,
or does it mean that Billy's product/brand means more to society with him dead
rather than him being alive? The building of a country's mythology?
If so, is this ethical?

dd.How did the legalities like cross-litigation change with
Billy "out of the movie?" Will there be litigants attached to the
movie? Is it a reason that the film stops just as Billy gets to Lima?

3.How is "A Crowded
Room" written by James Cameron or others being written?

a.Cameron's original
script for ACR is located on the Internet.

b.What is its direction
or message (vision/mission)?

c.Who will be some of
the other major contributors?

d.Are the show's writers
accessible?

e.Will they tell the
story honestly, factually and tactfully, and avoid sensationalism?

f.How similar is the
work going to be toward either of Billy's two books, spoken words, or
represented by some of his paintings or will there be a lot of creative
license?

g.Can someone access
papers or tests by the now deceased Dr. Caul andDr.MarjorieToomim(who had the
"mind-reading" biofeedback machine that showed different brainwaves
between Billy's adults and children)?

h.Why did the movie's
start/production take so long in "becoming" and will that affect its
future?

i.Can anything made into
a two-hour movie be interpreted as reality-based?

j.What is the affect
going to be with Billy being presented primarily by his harsh childhood and
lack of support?

k.How do we make the
actors and production team understand that what they are doing affects the
reality of so much more and so many more people than just the income and credit
they are making by producing a film?

l.Will the movie give
perspective/closure to Billy or his victims? Or, either of their
survivors/supporters?

4.Questions on filming

a.When and where will
the movie be shot - near the end of 2015?

b.When is it expected to
debut?

c.Can our message of
"healthy Multiples" be worked into the "aftermath"
conclusion of the movie?

d.Can we become a part
of an advisory board or gain access to ongoing work?

e.How could time as a
commodity work for us or against us?

f.Is this the kind of
Production team that cares enough to listen or have they already concluded
through enough independent research?

g.Will they use the
advice of real Multiples who are healthy and live successfully as the result of
effort?

h.Ideally, should we be
looking for "Big shots" who can offer rational views with the ability
to see that authentic decisions and improvements occur?

i.Will they choose to
activate "experts" like Dr. RichardKluft?

j.Will the show be like
the representation of other films/shows like Sybil or United States of
Tara? Or, will it present as something unique and worthwhile?

k.How will the
film avoid traditional Hollywood "movieification" and star glitter?

l.How would a positive,
successful movie affect all who sees it, and then turn them too into being
inspired and/or aspirational?

5.Contacting LD or his
staff

a.Advocates for healthy
Multiples.

b.Assuring LD speak as
positive ambassador during the movie and/or through interviews.

c.How to get ahold or
reach him (gain attention?)

i.do we try to contact
LD in person,

ii.directly through
writing his staff,

iii.writing about
Multiplicity in general through articles and such,

iv.Penning formal letters
or requests -

1.Keeping correspondence
short and polite,

2.Using our good
considerate, patient voices,

3.Being part of the
solution and not part of the problem - Eldridge Cleaver.

d.Using simple forms of
communication like emails, and especially social media such as Facebook
and Twitter, or Google search engines that his crew might come across and
convey back into the project.

e.Encourage LD's crew to
contact Professional (content/context) and artistic people in Billy's life that
he trusted and could convey an otherwise missed message.

f.Present (like with the
press) as someone who can be taken seriously.

g.In going through
professional channels, be especially considerate to the secretaries and
assistants - people who are portals and who might accept brief messages or
potentially helpful links.

b.Ask the question,
"Why should we gain/reach for personal or public attention?" And as
individuals, as a group, or both?

c.What worthwhile stance
are we taking on presenting issues?

d.What is the process of
gathering talking points?

e.Will we be able to
guide or sway a national audience attention toward a better, sounder
understanding or comprehension of Multiples - especially, those Multiples
hiding in fear of danger?

f.What does being a
"we" really mean?

g.Have we all read
Billy's book, the original script, or other books/resources that would support
our collective knowledge bank?

h.Why is it important to
consider Multiples as sane?

i.How does
communication, conversation and dialogue help right social wrongs or inequities

j.How do we best right
the wrong of social imbalances or assist others who are fighting against the
odds?

k.Are we each
responsible/accountable for others? For our own people, or as external
people in support of other externals? Soup lines?

l.As a Multiple it is
much easier to say, of course, Multiplicity is real - not so much for many
singletons.

m.At which point does
the Multiple find it "easier to understand at least enough to not be so
frightened/shocked/confused" by themselves or their communities anymore?

n.Should some of us be
responsible to teach/learn from others, is it an obligation, duty, and/or gift
to assist others having actual problems? How do we best share good and
bad and everything in-between as hopeful?

o.Are we going to be
accountable to contradict the majority of falsehoods, doubts, disbeliefs,
rumors, rejections, oversimplifications, and jokes put "out there"
especially by non-Multiples?

p.Can we assist in
creating/developing a further "Multiple Story" that is more
"upbeat?"

q.Who do we meet with or
where do we go to help ourselves maintain selves and healthy boundaries during
the "outside world" processes we seem to be moving toward?

r.Is it ok that we are
just continuing to develop our own sense of us while exposed to others that
want us "to know what's going on" and still come out so we're always
"enabling ourselves in the process of taking care of ourselves" first
and foremost?

s.How do all of us
handle the essential problems of criminals?

t.Can we gain the
support of not only Multiples, but as well singletons with experience or desire
for experience?

u.Is just "being a
Multiple" still an issue? The issue?

v.Is there anything more
simplistic as people needing/wanting to give support when others need support,
especially when they are feeling frail and the former is feeling stronger and
more able? Love thy neighbor?

w.Will the process of
making or viewing the movie enable others to question healthy Multiplicity
positively so they too can advocate, help or support others Multiple or not?

x.How do we best utilize
the Davey and Goliath affect addressing Multiplicity with the public?

y.If there were
compensation for our support, could we agree to funnel it all back into the
cause of "Plural Activism."

z.How important is it to
get healthy/normal singleton's to buy in/take ownership and take responsibility
for issues that may seem initially just for Multiples? How about
abusers?

aa.What are the abusers' responsibilities after the affect?

bb.What are the roles of "the Press?"

7.Positives Press for
the group

a.Opportunity to study
Multiplicity (as knowledge) through the processes of -

i.seeing the film ACR
come into fruition,

ii.watching it develop
its new hold on what becomes its own "cultural hold/stance."

b.Taking part in a
healthy and safe process of advocacy or support for those interested.

c.Taking an
interest/commitment in debate/conversation in strength of Multiplicity.

d.Personal growth as
individuals and the ability to be expressive.

e.How do we best support
our leadership? And, the foot soldier ants?

f.Gaining an abundancy
of new and positive ideas and comradery by working through group processes.

g.Gaining opportunities
to develop and express a multitude of thoughts or series of positive thinking
processes.

h.Is there accessible
research being done on healthy Multiplicity?

i.Lessons in not
devaluating our sense of self-esteem, sense of purpose, or feelings that we are
bothering others.

j.Opportunities for
Heroism through active participation in looking for and finding new insights.

k.Learning it is ok to
be different or in contributing individual strengths.

l.Validating a
"cause" by becoming free and active participants either in foreground
or the background.

m.Should we start a
collection of important links we will be utilizing to connect an online
presence?

n.It’s a given that
natural human nature can sparkle and shine including us in accepting new
personal and professional roles?

o.Learning to understand
more on internal systems of Multiplicity and on external "Outside Systems
(legal/institutions)."

p.Pass on the message we
aren't "gorillas eating babies" or as criminals and monsters - all in
need of being controlled/dominated

q.How do healthy Multiples
present themselves best to the Professional community while teaching them
we can empower ourselves, though assistance is sometimes very nice.

r.Are all professional
people the same?

s.Could knowledge of us
lead to better communication and being perceived less threateningly?

8.Negative Press for
Multiples

a.Is Multiplicity
"really" real?

b.How does bad press
affect "Healthy Multiples" or those trying to be healthy?

c.Aren't we all acting
the "role of a Multiple" like actor Leonardo DiCaprio?

d.Can we avoid being
"down-spoken and victimized, "blind ostriches”?”

e.Will the movie be
sensationalized?

f.Richard Ramirez
"the Night Stalker murderer" was a Multiple serial killer, but his
Multiplicity was later disproven, but he, fiction writers, and others have led
people to presuppose it is normal for Multiples to be murderers?

g.Deepen feelings of
rejection and abandonment causing more Multiples to hide and not get
appropriate care, support, validation, or leave them with feelings of beingunlovable.

h.In front of the press,
will we turn on ourselves or each other due to fear or overexposure and
lack of focus? Could we sabotage ourselves?

i.Will we lose decorum
"as a giddy fan" in front of role models and "stars?" Will
we be able to stop ourselves from idolatry?

j.Would there be a
problem with singletons leaving the movie and feeling vulnerable of us/or
susceptible/afraid of us as unseen people "hidden" in the crowd or
within "our" "private communities" (or thinking
incorrectly, we are more intelligent or creative than most and have all the
answers and don't need the public)? Or the opposite, we are just
"sick" and in need of their sympathy?

k.Some professional
support people will continue to see the negative side of Multiplicity as
non-functioning and suffering.

l."DID is sometimes
a narrow diagnosis based on the study of systems who struggle and/or end in
conflict with human society."

m."Backward
psychology/psychiatry" affects all of us - how do you find positive in
studying just the negative?

9.Issue #1 -
Legal/Court/State Institution - justice/In-justice

a.Initial decision in
the 70's that a Multiple can be innocent of crime if the crime was committed by
"alters."

b.What is the legality
for a person who is "more than one person?" Is it different
than from a singleton?

c.Is Multiplicity or
people within the Multiple insane? Should insanity be punished or
rehabilitated, and how?

i.Taking advantage of
the legal/societal system,

ii.Using Multiplicity as
a convenient excuse for only that which feels good to us,

iii.Taking no responsibility
for killing or other felonious crimes,

d.Are all criminals
"insane" as their crimes are being committed, or is it a matter of
diagnosis/evaluation by a psychiatrist or other people with moral
compass' as in asking, "Did he know what he was doing was wrong?" Did
he place his hand on the Bible? Trust? Hope?

e.When does a criminal
cross the line where his inward thoughts lead to negative behaviors and
actions, and he is no longer just the product or influence of perhaps a poor
upraising, or an aggressive husband? Free will?

f.What happens to the
safety of a system if they are in chaos? Is there protections from Mental
health systems or professionals? Society? Can we find and then
reach "safety" before causing damage to ourselves or others?

g.Can some Multiple
systems hide criminals within themselves such as families often hide their
family members? Boundaries? Preservation of a single unit?

i.Does Maslow's
hierarchy of needs effect poor criminal decision making such as "the case
of personal survival?" Or, is the criminal basis greed and
revenge? Or, perhaps cruelty and lack of empathy? Or, even
self-discipline? Is there actual mental disorder? Does it stop and start
for all individuals?

j.Are penal systems
better at hiding criminals from society than solving issues and problems?
Is this a part of "the throwaway culture" we live in? Does our
penal system make people worse than when they started?

k.Is legality an issue
of black and white, good and evil, or right and wrong?

l.Are legal punishments
better at breaking emotional spirits of human beings rather than rehabilitation
to again one day be alive in an appropriate forgiving community?

m.There is a book out in
2014 byDr. Naira R.Matevosyancalled,
"Dissociative Identity Disorder in the Courtroom: A Guide to
Forensic Testimony." Will this be a good guide?
Insightful?

10.Issue #2 - General Public "individual and group
externals" perception of Multiplicity

a.Giant Steps? Baby
Steps?

b.What systems of change
will people need to render a valid or valuable judgment or interpretation of
Multiplicity?

c.Are there values
and/or downsides to "public opinion?"

d.What is the deepening effect
of traditional prejudice, stereotyping and fear of those who are different?
Lack of tolerance?

e.No matter how careful
and sensitive the movie people are, people are still going to feel fear and
danger of Multiples because they don't know how we think. Is there a cure for
this?

f.How possible is it
that we are all, to some degree, Multiples? Would it matter in our
responses to one another? Is it a matter of being covert or overt?

g.Are Multiples
basically the same as Singletons? Do we all still bleed red blood?

h.Could Multiples become
further distraught and buried within themselves due to society’s rejection of
Multiplicity?

i.It is very feasible
people don't want to learn and understand, but rather they come for morbid
sensationalism?

j.Sometimes it seems,
people just want an “easy-out” black and white solution to what they consider
societal problems that are in part due to authority, power, or structural
imbalances such that occur in politics, business, religion, or war.

k.We can't get rid of
all the bad thinking because it is so well-based in untruths and dichotomies
not well thought out. Can we help?

l.Are there things that
are beneficial, useful to learn about people with Multiplicity?

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Hi, we're Ann and all (Aynetal3). We are 58-years and am a Multiple.
We have three adult sons and their families and am in a 23-year relationship with our best friend Rich. We have in our home Dakota, our 5-year old collie/golden retriever service dog, and Missy our 19-year old black kitty. Oh, and we keep our psychiatrist Dr. Marvin in business ;)
We had been studying at a Master's level Educational Psychology and Adult Education - e-learning, technology and design. We enjoy a strong interest in Self-Regulation and Multiplicity/Dissociation (DID, but w/o so much disorder). We do a lot of curating through reading and writing, and we utilize Word, Mindmapping, Evernote, a few favorite books, and social media (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Speakerdeck, and Learnist).
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Another buzzword in our industry is “Curation”. As those who follow this blog may already know, curation is a subject that I have been interested in for quite some time. It’s also a term that, like gamification, is getting misinterpreted quite often.

Curation is about replacing the noise of ever-increasing information with the clarity of context. It’s about blocking out what isn’t relevant so that you can focus on what you need. There are many different layers to curation, which makes it hard to settle on a single definition of what is, and is not, curation.

There are a number of people who point to “curation software” or “curation algorithms” that can automate the curation process. I’ve always disagreed with this definition of curation. For me, curation requires the intervention of a person. A computer can effectively filter data so that it is easier to find what you’re looking for, but it can only take you so far. A curator doesn’t just filter; a curator builds context around shared information to increase its relevance, often forming connections between seemingly unrelated pieces of information. When I think about curation as a skill for learning and development professionals, I don’t see it simply as delivering what you need to help you do what you do today; I see it as a way of exposing workers to new ideas that expand their interests and skill sets. That’s a piece of the equation that is too often left out of the curation discussion.

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Not all links to "News" is positive; sometimes "news" makes one feel sick with the lack of empathy and understanding for people with dissociative identity disorder (DID) or multiple personality disorder (MPD) in the public's mind-eye. Please bear this in mind when searching the files. The annotations include pro AND anti-DID/MPD --- To multiples ... There will be Triggers! Please Take Care of Your Systems/Families.

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For a general conversation of the negative the public is putting out on DID/MPD, please go further on top of this message to where it says "Multiple Mythology - Busting" I believe that the general public argues that multiplicity is not believable, but then look at how they themselves use and abuse multiplicity in formats that make them feel much better than the multiples left in the dust. Each of the mythologies mentioned can be found within about a months worth of Google Search (red letter posts) within this blog. Then in contrast LISTEN to multiples conversations and look for THEIR ACTUALrealities.

Each of the archives (under half month date) read from most current of that period to less current. Newest additions to the news are always after 7 pm.

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We're going to leave ourselves a little marker to remember which blog we left off on reading. Generally, what we do as time allows - is start from the last blog read (the person had to have written within one week) and then we go down the alphabetical list or/ according to posting day/time and then on to the next and next as time allows.

We're thinking this is our Insider's Neighborhood (IN) and we're just having walks and visits. :) We keep houses/blogs on the block/roll until up to the time they are 12 months without having written - after it says one year, we take them off the list. We are very happy to put any blog back on the list once the writer starts writing again. Sorry just a matter of practicality. It is a long block by virtue of any-aged tennis shoes.

Let us know if you want to be added or taken-off.

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Happy to "being" around and loving like the dickens being able to correspond with you. We tend to leave comments, though the system is not perfect. I enjoy reading ALMOST as much as we enjoy writing :) Want to walk the block too? Please join in :) It seems like most bloggers like to have visitors/readers.

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Then scroll down toward the very bottom We're trying to get you to our mind map - which is a BIG block light blue on the top and white on the bottom (Takes up a screen size).

The first thing you should see in the map section (light blue) is a line reading "NEWS Real State of Personal Identity with the Curation and Blog Culture." To the right side you will see a line that reads "Multiples who Blog." Click on that. Under that you will see "Honored Bloggers." Click on "Honored Bloggers :)"

The map should move for you ... we're going to have you click on one of the bloggers, you could choose any of them, but for example we'll have you click on the one that says "Self-ish Too Triggering." They are pretty much in alphabetical order. That is the name of one blogger of 140 that is multiple. (This is JUST at the beginning of us forming a system to write map/outline).

So you've clicked on "Self-ish Too Triggering." Take your time to look at other areas too ... it's part of the fun!

Now there are links from the "Honored Bloggers" which moved to the right side of the map. Under "Self-ish Too Triggering" Click on the line that says

"Overrode reptilian brain with cognitive brain."

You'll notice that under the light blue screen there is a white screen and that says, "Overrode reptilian brain with cognitive brain"

"So we messed up three weeks ago and went to Maine. Pretty much we overrode the reptilian brains with our cognitive brains. In part this happened as we went to maine with some people. We kinda went with society’s understanding that going to the ocean for a paddle must be wonderful for everyone at all times or something is wrong with them."

This is a "note" letting viewers know that the title of this line came from a reference at the above blog link which is the actual address for the blogger Self-ish ... (dayodayo...), and that the full annotation from that blogger was written on August 7th and it is the first quote I took from him that day. It also notes that the annotation was copied in the NEWS blog on August 7, and it is the sixth blog that was written on that day. The lower the number, the more recent the blog annotations/bloggers (on the 7th there's like there's about 55 blogs that have annotations curated).

The part that reads, "So we messed up ..." that is the actual annotation taken from that blogger - again to read the full entry for him that day, you would click on the linked address and it will bring you back to that persons blog which you might want to do to put it in context.

Ok, now for the sake of our example, click on "Went on trip to Maine with other people."

You might notice under that line it reads "Expectation to do wonderful things or fall under peer pressure," and you could click on that, but this time look to the side of the "Went on trip..." line to "Triggered feelings when co-worker..."

Take note too that this whole map is a movable outline, so if you want to go back to the previous entry, just click one of the lines above the main line (the one circled and in the middle).

Anyway this time we're going to click on the line "Triggered feelings when co-worker..."

To the right you will get nine or more statements from the blogger "Just Be Real" - You can tell its a blog/blogger because I am starting those lines with an * (asterisk). You can skim over that list to the right and see what other kinds of thoughts "Just Be Real" had. At any time you can click on any line and it will lead you somewhere.

This time click on the word "Triggered" in the middle of the blue lines from the center to the right. Basically, then we're looking for thoughts to do with triggering (after only doing a handful of bloggers/blogs).

Over the word "Triggered" You will see the line "Dysfunctional Recurring Internal Force Imposed (Effect)." This is like someone did something wrong to the multiple which lead to a negative effect (the others' actions were "forceful." On the right you will see some of those effects that are negative such as "addictions, Entrapped (stuck), desire to escape/avoid/withdraw, lack of sleep, etc.)

Under "Triggered" you can see lines connecting being triggered to "Being Sexually intimate, being triggered by peers (their behaviors), and a line about not recognizing triggers. All of these things are going to take marvelous explorations through the continued curating of annotations as we continue to read other bloggers (including our own) randomly over time

This time we are going to click on the line at the top that says "Dysfunctional Recurring Internal Force Imposed (Effect)." The items to the right are now at the bottom of the map, but we're going to walk things backward to where we started.

This time click on the word, "Behavior."

You'll notice that the Behaviors this line pertains to are the behaviors of the "self" (above the word Behavior). Other things from the "Self" are beliefs, feelings, and thinking. They all lead to places broken down from those leads. We are still going backward though so click on the word, "Self."

Now we are back to where we started, "NEWS Real State of Personal Identity with the curation and Blog Culture ..." If you look to the right you will see the things I've paralleled with "Self," such as "Mainstream culture, Multiples who Blog, and Trusted Significant Others."

You've got the general idea of how the Map works. What the plan is to continue adding lines and annotations to the map until we can discern patterns that assist us in understanding what multiples are writing about. It's a process of Analyzing and then we will be Synthesizing.

I'm thinking this is how (outline/map) our next book is going to get written! Sure as hell am excited ... Like lets see what we can do in the next several years! Ya know?! It's a plan!